H Woman's Privilege 



Democracy in Dress 




by LUCY E. HOBBS 



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A WOMAN'S PRIVILEGE 



by 

Lucy E. Hobbs. 



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A WOMAN'S PRIVILEGE. 

A One Act Play in Three Scenes* 



CHARACTERS. 

Mr. Jennings, the high school principal. 

Ellen Gray. 

Gladys Miller, an overdressed student. 

Mrs. Brown ) __ ' . . TTr , ,_. . 

,, -p, , > Members ot the Woman s Club. 

Mrs. Koberts j 

Alice Thompson, student and friend of Gladys Miller. 

Ralph Mclntyre ) 

Tom Wentworth j 

Three Models. 

SCENES. 

Scene I. — Office of the high school principal in. the 
forenoon. 

Scene II. — Front hall of the high school just after 
lunch. 

Scene III — Reception room of the Woman's Club 
House about 4:00 o'clock in the after- 
noon. 



Synopsis of the Play. 

Ellen Gray, a brilliant member of the senior class, 
has determined to leave school because she cannot 
dress as well as most of the other students. But a 
change in school policy is brought about just in time 
to prevent her carrying out her rash decision. 

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Scene I — Principal's Office, (Principal reading at his 
desk. Phone rings.) 

Mr. Jennings. — Yes, this is Mr. Jennings. You 
wish to see me about uniform dress for the girls? 
No, I am not too busy. It is a new idea to me but 
I shall be glad to talk with you on the subject. Good 
bye. (Hangs up receiver.) Well, I have enter- 
tained enthusiasts on every subject from temperance 
to a new ventilating system, but I wasn't looking for 
a dissertation on styles. However, if they represent 
the patrons of the school, they must have a hearing 
whatever their hobby. (Enter Ellen Gray a student 
poorly dressed, agitated, books under arm.) Well, 
Ellen, what can I do for you to-day ? 

Ellen. — Nothing, only I'm going to quit school. 

Mr. J. — Quit school! Why Ellen, this is your 
last year. You will graduate in June. Certainly 
you don't mean to say — 

Ellen. — Yes, I do, I'm going to quit. 

Mr. J. — You do not realize what you are doing, I 
fear, Ellen. There must be something wrong. Have 
you had trouble with any of your teachers ? 

Ellen.— No. 

Mr. J. — I didn't think it likely. Your work and 
deportment have always been excellent. What is the 
trouble ? 

Ellen. — No trouble whatever, but I've made up 



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my mind to go and I wanted to tell you. {Picks up 
books she had dropped on desk.) 

Mr. J. — I can't let any student take such a step 
without an explanation. You must tell me why you 
are going You have never been unreasonable be- 
fore, Ellen. You must not begin now. 

Ellen. — (On the verge of tears.) Well, if you 
must know — this is the reason. (Holds out skirt a 
little) It's clothes, that's all. I can't stand it to be 
poorly dressed among the silks, chiffons, and satins 
up here. What joy do you suppose you would get 
out of school life if you had to wear clothes like 
these ? They're the best I can afford, too. I work 
for my board and buy my own books and there's 
nothing left for silk and chiffon. 

Mr. J. — You get the best grades in school, Ellen. 
The teachers are all proud of you. 

Ellen. — What good will high grades do me? I 
can't get into any club, I can't go to parties. I can't 
have any chums or good friends. And it isn't be- 
cause I'm not as clever as they are, nor as good look- 
ing, nor as smart, but all because of my clothes. 
That's it ! It's a regular aristocracy up here with 
clothes as queen. Everybody pays homage by wear- 
ing the latest and each tries to outdo the rest. Do 
you blame me, Mr. Jennings, if I want to get out and 
away from here ? I'm proud even if I am poor, and 
I can't stand it any longer. 



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Mr. J. — I see just how it is, Ellen, and I am glad 
you have told me all about it. I never realized be- 
fore that any students felt this way, but perhaps the 
mothers have, and perhaps they have a solution. 
There is a committee coming up this very morning 
to talk with me about clothes. I want you to prom- 
ise to stay in school until the end of the week. Per- 
haps then I shall have something more to say on the 
subject. Won't you go back to your work now as 
usual and try to think of nothing else until Friday ? 

Ellen. — I don't believe I can keep from thinking 
about my clothes, but I suppose I could stand it the 
rest of the week. (Exit.) 

Mr. J. — Thank you. (Aside) Well, clothes seems 
to be the particular topic of this particular day. 
(Enter Gladys, overdressed and haughty. Pulls her dress 
aside so as not to touch Ellen and gives her a disdainful 
look as she passes.) 

Gladys. — (saucily) You sent for me, Mr. Jen- 
nings. What's up? 

Mr. J. — (Recovering from his abstraction.) Yes, yes, 
I did. It's about your work. Let me see. (Gladys 
powders while the Principal searches in his desk for her 
report card.) Your grades are far below average. 
Several of your teachers have complained to me 
about it. Your mind does not seem to be on your 
work. You do not seem to realize the importance of 



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applying yourself to your studies. Now is the time 
to learn all you can. 

Gladys. — (sighs.) Oh, Gee! What's the use? 
I cant afford to spend much time on my books, I'd 
soon look like a scare-crow. Later on I'm going to 
a school of art and I can learn all I care to learn 
right there. 

IVIr*. J.— If you are not prepared they will not ac- 
cept your credits. 

Gladys. — Any day they won't! I guess dad 
knows the president. Is n't that sufficient, Mr. Jen- 
nings? And there they don't keep hammering ever- 
lastingly on study. The teachers show some feeling 
and are willing a girl should have a little time to 
take care of her personal appearance. 

Mr. J. — There is an old saying: "Pretty is that 
pretty does." I wish you were more like Ellen Gray. 
Gladys, think what fine marks she gets. 

Gladys. — Yes, and think what she looks like and 
how unpopular she is. Hm, I'd run and hide myself 
before I'd look like her. 

Mr. J. — Well, Gladys, you'll have to admit that 
when there's anything big to do around here, she is 
generally called on. For instance, in assembly this 
morning she made a fine speech. Every teacher and 
student that I have talked to yet has said so. None 
could have improved on what she did this morning. 
Do you think— ( phone rings. Gladys vses powder puff 



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while he talks.) High school. I'm afraid it will be 
impossible. I have an important engagement with a 
committee from the Woman's Club this morning. 
We are to discuss the adoption of uniform style of 
dress for high school girls, and it may take some 
time. 

Gladys. (Aside.) Uniform dress! For the love 
of Mike ! 

Mr. J. — Thank you. Good-bye. (turning arovnd) 
Well, Gladys, what do you think about it? Don't 
you think you really ought to settle down to business 
and not waste so much time? All your teachers 
have complained. 

Gladys. — They all take their spite out on me. 
I'll bet if I had different teachers I could get along 
all right. 

Mr. J. — Now, let's not lay the blame on the teach- 
ers. I believe if you would make up our mind to be 
serious for once, that you and your teachers would 
be much better friends. Now you must promise. 

(Enter Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Roberts.) 

Mrs. Brown. — Good morning, Mr. Jennings, I be- 
lieve I met you at the Rotary Club banquet, did I not ? 

Mr. J. — I think so. I am pleased to meet you 
again, Mrs. Brown. 

Mrs. Brown. — Let me introduce you to Mrs. 
Roberts, Mr. Jennings. 

Mr. J. — I am very glad to meet you, Mrs. Roberts^ 



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I know your husband well. Please have chairs and 
we will discuss the question of high school students* 
dress at length. You may be excused, Gladys. 

(Exit Gladys.) 

Mrs. Roberts. — I hope we are not trespassing on 
your time, Mr. Jennings, but the mothers in the 
Woman's Club have come to feel that few high school 
problems are of more importance than that of the 
girls' dress. 

Mrs. Brown. — You spoke over the phone as if 
you had not thought much about the matter, Mr. 
Jennings. We are not talking about the question of 
styles, tho surely good taste in dressing is as much a 
part of a high school girl's education as algebra or 
history. But we are especially thinking about the 
influence clothes have upon the relations of the girls 
with each other. How friendships are formed and 
broken up according to the clothes worn. 

Mrs. Roberts. — You know girls are thoughtless 
creatures. 

Mrs. Brown. — And the strain that is put upon 
many poor homes in the effort to send their daugh- 
ters to school as well dressed as their wealthier 
neighbors. 

Mr. J. — After what has happened this morning 
I am quite inclined to agree with you that there 
should be some change in this regard in our public 
high schools. 



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Mrs. Brown. — We feel that just now, when so 
much is being said about democracy, some uniform 
styles could be introduced that would be both simple 
and becoming. Gradually a measure of uniformity 
would take the place of the great distinctions in dress 
now so apparent, and in the end, both democracy 
and good taste would be promoted. But you spoke 
a moment ago as if something had happened to point 
the moral to our tale. 

Mr. J. — So there has. Only a few moments ago 
one of our most brilliant and industrious girls came 
to tell me that she had made up her mind to leave 
school because she cannot afford to dress like the 
others. As she passed out, another student, the one 
you saw, came in. She is a student only in name. 
All her thought and time are expended on her per- 
sonal appearance and her school work suffers accord- 
ingly. We certainly have these two types, and 
neither extreme is desirable. 

Mrs. Roberts. — That is just the way the mothers 
feel. Those who cannot afford to wear opera clothes 
to school every day, or whose sense of propriety 
will not permit them to do so, are made to feel 
shabby in comparison with those who do. Cliques 
are springing up and friendships are being formed 
on the false standard of clothes. Meanwhile, the 
girls are learning to judge from appearances only 



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and to conclude that it makes no difference whether 
they learn anything or not if they are only dressed 
in the height of style. 

Mr. J. — I suppose the mothers would be saved a 
great deal of work and worry, too, if there were a few 
standard styles to choose from. 

Mrs. Brown.— Yes, Mr. Jennings, you would be 
surprised to know how many mothers go shabby 
themselves that their daughters may wear expensive 
clothes to school and how much time they spend 
sewing when they ought to be doing other things. 

Mrs. r. — Yo U know it is human nature to want 
to keep up with Sally. That is why there must be 
concerted action. A few working alone can accom- 
plish but little. 

Mr. J. — But could uniform styles be agreed on by 
so many mothers? 

Mrs. B. — Yes, I think so, Mr. Jennings. Some 
high schools already have adopted the plan and it 
has been the custom in the eastern schools for many 
years. In our own, the graduating dresses are all 
alike, you know, and the girls seem to like that. 

Mr. J. — Yes, the plan certainly works at Com- 
mencement time. I should be sorry to go back to 
the old way. 

Mrs. R- — The mothers we represent favor a style 
for warm weather, another for winter, and one more 



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easily varied, but still simple for parties and club 

affairs. 

(Enter two students, Ralph Jones and Alice Thompson.) 

Mr. J. — The plan seems feasible. Do you wish to 
present it to the board or shall I handle the matter ? 
I'm willing to do whatever you advise. Excuse me 
a moment, please. Well Kalph? 

Ralph. — (nodding toward girl) We were sent 
here for talking too much in class. 

Mr. J. — For talking too much! That's a bad thing 
to do. You may sit down over there until the end 
of the period. 

Mrs. B. — You were speaking of presenting the 
question of uniform dress to the board, Mr. Jennings. 
I think you can do it much better than either of us. 
And when the board sees how one style of dress pro- 
motes democracy, good taste, and the economy we are 
all trying to practice just now, I don't see how they can 
help but adopt it. Then if you will present the matter 
to the students in a favorable light, we will under- 
take to see the mothers we have not already talked 
to. 

Mrs. R. — And now we must not take any more 
of your time, Mr. Jennings. I'm afraid we have 
detained you too long already. 

Mr. J. — Not at all ladies. I'm very glad you came 
up, and I certainly consider the time well spent. 



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And now may I show you over the building ? We 
are always glad to have the patrons visit the school. 

Mrs. R. — It will be a pleasure to visit the high- 
school again. I used to do so often, before my son 
graduated three years ago. 

Mrs. B. — My only daughter slipped away from 
me just as she was ready to enter high school. If 
she had lived she would have graduated in this year's 
class. I think that is why I am so interested in 
everything here. I want to know about the things 
she would have been interested in. 

Mr. J. — That is very natural, Mrs. Brown. 
(Exeunt Ladies and Mr. Jennings.) 

Alice. — Well, if that isn't the limit. Come up 
here and go telling us how to dress. As if we didn't 
know already. 

Ralph. — What's the idea? I didn't just get the 
drift of it? 

Alice. — Why, they want us to wear dresses all 
alike ! "Uniform dress" they called it. Didn't you 
hear ? I suppose that means we're to have one dress 
and everybody's dress is like everybody's else. 

Ralph. — Well they've got their nerve. They 
have no right to butt in like that. That's all I've 
got to say. We can manage our own affairs. Of 
course you girls know how to dress. Say, do you 
have the remotest idea they're going to make the 
boys wear uniform dresses, too? 



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Alice. — Very likely. {Bell rings) There goes the 
bell. They'll come as near making you do it as me. 
I'm not going to have anybody tell me how to dress, 
and I know Gladys and lots of the other girls will 
feel the same way. 

Ralph. — So long. See you after lunch. 

(Exeunt, one from each side of tJie stage. Curtain.} 

Scene II — Front hall of high school building. Enter 
Tom and Gladys from opposite sides of stage. 

Tom.— Hello, Glad! What's your hurry? 

Gladys. — Oh, Mabel Smith said she'd let me have 
her math, if I came early. The teachers have been 
squealing on me and Jenny says I've got to get better 
grades. Don't stop me. 

Tom. — There's no rush. It's twenty minutes till 
class time and it won't take you ten to copy those 
problems. I say wasn't that some assembly we had 
this morning ? Best in years ! Got the same old pep 
back again, eh? 

Gladys.— Uh-huh. If the boys don't win with a 
send-off like that I'll never speak to any of them 
again. 

Tom. — Easier said than done, both ways. Didn't 
Jim look classy in his white ducks and maroon jersey? 

Gladys.— I'll say so, but I think Ellen Gray 
looked absolutely disreputable speaking on the plat- 
form in that terrible looking dress. 



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Tom. — There you go! Can't say anything but 
you'll begin to criticize the way she's dressed. I 
think it was a blamed good speech. 

Gladys. — Don't get mad, Tommy dear. Nothing 
personal, I hope. In fact I don't know but I quite 
admire her nerve myself going up before that crowd 
looking the way she did. 

Tom. — You could admire worse things. 

(Enter Ralph and Alice.) 

Ralph. — Well its some idea — 

Tom.— What's that? 

Alice. — Why we were in — 

Ralph. — Now, Alice let me do the talking. The 
Woman's Club has undertaken the job of running 
this high school. (Gladys is powdering) 

Tom. — What do you mean? 

Ralph. — I mean they're coming up to tell you 
(nodding toward Gladys) how to dress. 

Gladys. — You mean that's what they're trying to 
do. I heard all about it when I was visiting with 
Jenny this morning. 

Tom. — How to dress? 

Ralph. — Yes, you've all got to dress alike (to girls) 
Uniform dress, you know. White middies, blue skirts, 
red ties — hundreds of 'em. 

Alice. — Ralph and I happened to go into the 
office. 

Tom.— Oh ! 



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Alice. — Just as two women were coming out 
and we overheard them say it would be so much 
more democratic if we were all dressed just alike. I 
think it's the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard 

Ralph. — And Jenny seemed to agree with 'em. 
I didn't think he'd fall for any such stuff. 

Gladys. — Imagine me coming to school dressed in 
a plain blue sailor suit. 

Alice. — All the girls dressed just alike, like a 
bunch of kids from an orphan asylum. 

Tom. — We won't be able to tell one from the 
other except by the do they get on their hair. 

Ralph. — Yep, and that's all the same—two 
puffs over the ears and straight back in the middle. 

Alice. — Who asked you to say anything about 
the way we dress our hair ? I think we aught to do 
something to show those women how perfectly crazy 
the whole idea is. 

Tom. — I've got it! Have a big parade. Invite 
the whole Woman's Club. Have the girls dressed 
in plain black dresses with white collars and cuffs. 

Ralph. — I say, Glad, you lead the procession. 

{Enter Ellen not seen by students.) 

Gladys. — I should say not. I wouldn't disgrace 
myself by walking thro the streets looking like that. 
But we won't have uniform dress just the same. 

Alice. — Not if we have anything to say about it. 



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Why it would mean that we would have to wear 
the same kind of things as Ellen Gray does and all 
the rest of 'em. Why just think how terrible she 
looked in the assembly this morning. 

{Ellen steps forward much excited. Ralph whistles.) 

Tom.— (Aside) Good Night. 

Ellen. — I didn't mean to be eavesdropping but I 
couldn't help but overhearing what you just said. 
I don't care what you think about me, but if any- 
body is going to try to start the idea of simpler 
dressing in this school, you ought to think twice 
before you oppose it. It's all very well for you who 
can afford rich clothes and everything else you want, 
but how about the rest of us ? Do you suppose I or 
any of the girls dress this way because we like to ? 

Gladys. — I suppose it is kind of hard on you, 
Ellen, to have to dress that way but how can we 
help it? Why, I wouldn't care to come to school 
if I couldn't look nice. I'd rather have pretty clothes 
than all the good grades in the world. 

Ellen . — That's j ust it. Nothing but clothes counts 
up here. Why, none of you (turning to all) would 
walk down the hall with anyone as poorly dressed 
as I am. (Turning to boys) You vie with each other 
to see which one can walk the farthest with what 
you call a stunningly dressed girl, and you just as 
carefully avoid the shabby ones. And that isn't all! 



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Why, we don't even have a chance to show what we 
can do in school activities j ust because we don't have 
the right sort of clothes. 

Tom. — Why you recite — and get high grades, and 
even speak on the platform. I don't see — 

Ellen. — That's just it — You don't see. Do we get 
into Clubs? Do we go to parties or anything else out 
side of classes? Do you know that Mary Smith has a 
perfectly marvelous voice? But she can't show it 
because she's so ashamed of her clothes that she won't 
get up before the Glee Club. 

Alice. — But, Ellen, it's not our fault if she's poor 
and ashamed of it. 

Ellen. — It is your fault when you dress so much 
better than we can. There are lots of girls just 
like Mary Smith, and if there was a uniform style 
of dress they wouldn't feel so different from the rest. 

Gladys. — Oh, my dear, she's only one in a 
thousand. Why should all of us wear the same 
cheap clothes just to please her. 

Ellen. — Because thi6 is democratic America, 
that's why. But it won't make much difference to 
me because I'm leaving. I'm only trying to make 
things a little easier for the rest who have to keep on. 

Ralph. — Leaving school? Why, Ellen, you 
don't mean that? You arent leaving school on ac- 
count of clothes, are you ? 



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Ellen. — Yes, I am. If you want the truth, 
that's just it. 

Gladys. — (Yawning.) This whole thing makes 
me tired! And all about nothing, too. 

Ellen. — Maybe it does seem like nothing to you, 
but if you had been born in a poor family — (Enter 
Mr. Jennings. Ralph couglis.) 

Mr. J. — What's all the disturbance? You know 
you are making considerable noise. (Looks at boys.) 

Tom. — I say, we might just as well ask him a- 
bout it. Say, Mr. Jennings, what's all this stuff a- 
bout uniform dress, anyway. We were just having 
a heated little argument over it. 

MP. J.— Oh, that's it? 

Alice. — Yes, and I think it is absolutely awful! 
Why, how dare they tell us what we should wear? 
What do they know about it, anyhow? 

Ralph. — Why, I don't see as it would be so 
bad. 

Alice. — Oh! Kalph, there you go again. You 
are always carried away by your feelings. Just 
because Ellen's story seems a little pitiful, you 
want all the rest of us to be condemned to dress 
like criminals. 

Tom. — I cant say I think it's such a bad plan, 
but,— 

Gladys. — Of course you don't. Anything Ralph 
says goes with you. 



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Tom. — Now you don't need to jump on me like 
that. I was going to say I didn't think it would 
work, but you wouldn't let me finish. Didn't I 
suggest the parade, and you wouldn't listen to 
that either. 

Mr. J.— Parade? 

Alice. — Yes, they wanted us to have an anti- 
uniform dress parade and show the people how ri- 
diculous the whole idea is. Now honest, Mr. Jen- 
nings, don't you think it would be awful for all 
the girls in school to be dressed exactly alike in 
black dresses, with white collars and cuffs? 

Gladys. — We never could stand it. 

Mr. J. — But you people have the wrong idea 
of uniform dress entirely. It doesn't mean any 
such thing as you imagine at all. I was going to 
explain the whole matter in assembly tomorrow 
and then appoint a committee of students to talk 
it over with the ladies who saw me this forenoon. 
But since you students have already begun to 
talk and have such wrong notions I think I will 
not delay. Would you like for me to take action 
at once? 

All.— Yes— Uh! Huh! 

Mr. J. — Well then, I suggest that some of you 
go down this afternoon and consult with the com- 
mittee *rom the Woman's Club. In fact I will 



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appoint you, Ellen, and you, Ralph, and you, 
Gladys, as a committee to do so. I will phone to 
the ladies that you will meet them at four o'clock. 
{Bell rings) Until you have more information, let 
there be no more talking among the other stu- 
dents. Now hurry to your classes. 

Scene III — (Reception Room of Woman's Club House. 
Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Roberts sitting at a table, knitting. 

Mrs. R. — Purl two, knit two. Purl two, knit 
two. But I pity the ladies on the Rhine casting 
pearls before their swine! (Both laugh.) 

Mrs. B. — Where did you pick up that classic? 

Mrs. R. — Oh, I heard it at the high school this 
morning. I saw and heard a number of interest- 
ing things up there. I only wish I were a girl a- 
gain and right there with the rest of them. 

Mrs. B. — I would be quite contented if only my 
little daughter were there. Her class is graduat- 
ing this Spring, and somehow I feel as if I must 
know all about what goes on at Commencement 
time and must provide some girl with all the 
things girls want then almost as much as they do 
when they get married. Do you remember the 
name of the Senior that Mr. Jennings says is drop- 
ing out of school on account of clothes ? 

Mrs. R.— Yes, it's Ellen Gray. She's on the 



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committee and the only one of the three I have 
met. 

Mrs. B. — You must introduce her to me as 
soon as she comes. Somehow I feel as if we were 
destined to be great friends. I remember the 
names of the other two, Gladys Miller and Ealph 
Mclntyre, but I have never seen either of them. 

MPS. R. — Neither have I, but I don't imagine 
they will feel at all bashful about introducing 
themselves. In fact I'm afraid I shall be the one 
to feel timid, for I gathered from the little Mr. 
Jennings said over the phone, that the committee 
do not feel entirely favorable. 

Mrs. B. — That is just what 1 thought, but we 
must try our best to make them see it as we do; 
for it means so much to the mothers and girls 
both. The need for such a reform is felt all over 
the country. Why just yesterday I picked up the 
January copy of the Delineator and saw an ac- 
count of a big high school in the South where uni- 
form dress has been adopted with the best of re- 
sults. 

Mrs. R — Yes, the idea is spreading. I've not 
talked to a single mother who didn't favor it. 

Mrs. B. — Nor I, and I'm so glad we have the 
models ready. Are you sure they will be here 
soon after four? 



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Mrs. R. — Yes, the girls made a solemn promise 
to be prompt, and Oh! the costumes do look sweet. 
I know the students will like them. 

Mrs. B. {Listening.) I believe the committee 
is coming. {Smoothes hair.) 

Mrs. R. — (Rising.) I will meet them. 

(Goes toward door.) 

(Enter Ellen Gray, Gladys Miller and Ratyh 

Mclntyre.) 

Mrs. R. — How do you do, Miss Ellen? 

(Mrs. B. comes forward.) This is Mrs. Brown, 
Miss Gray. (Mrs. B. greets Ellen and takes charge 

of her.) 

Gladys to Mrs. R.— My name is Gladys Miller. 

(Extends hand affectedly.) 

Mrs. R. — I am very glad to meet you, my dear. 
I am Mrs. Roberts. 

Gladys. — And this is Mr. Ealph Mclntyre. 

(Ralph shakes hands with Mrs. R.) 

Mrs. R. — I am pleased to meet you, Ralph. Mrs. 
Brown, let me introduce Miss Gladys Miller and 
Mr. Ralph Mclntyre. 

Mrs. B. — I'm most happy to meet you both, ami 
now let us be seated and talk over the dress ques- 
tion. Doesn't that sound interesting? To begin, 
we were up to see your principal about it this morn- 
ing. 



24 A Woman's Privilege. 

Ralph. — Yes, we know. You see I went into 
the office just as you came out. That's where we 
got wind of it. 

MPS. B. — Oh! and you have discussed it since 
then among yourselves? 

Ellen. — Why yes, we had quite a discussion 
this noon. You see it doesn't appeal to all of them 
as it does to me. 

MPS. R.— No? 

Gladys. — (Who has been growing impatient) No! 
I should say not! Why, it's too silly to think we 
can't even wear what we want. 

Mrs. B. — But are you sure you understand what 
it would mean to many of the girls who cannot 
afford the beautiful things you wear? 

Ellen. — That's j ust what she doesn't. If she only 
could see how wonderful it would be for some she 
wouldn't object, I'm sure. 

Gladys. — I understand all I care to. There's no 
reason why we can't wear the same sort of clothes we 
always have worn. Why it's not only the girls, but 
even the boys don't like the idea, do they Ralph? 

Ralph. — Well, of course the fellows like to go 
with a girl that looks nice, you know. 

Mrs. R. — Of course you do, and that is right. 
The world would be much sadder than it is if it 
were to lose the beauty of its girlhood. You may 



A Woman's Privilege- 25 

be sure we mothers prize it more than you boys 
possibly can. And we believe the styles we have 
chosen will show sweet girlish looks to the very best 
advantage. I wish the models were here. 

Ellen. — Oh, are we going to see the styles you've 
selected? 

MPS. B. — Yes, our models will be here any mo- 
ment. We have chosen a Peter Tompson for win- 
ter, another one-piece style for warmer weather, 
and a pretty little party dress for class and club 
affairs. I am just sure you will like them. We 
mothers have spent no end of time planning this 
all out. 

Ralph. — That doesn't sound so bad. 

Gladys. — And we can have only three dresses? 

{Angrily.) 

Mrs. R. — You can have any number you desire, 
of course. We are merely suggesting some stand- 
ard styles and materials that we think appropriate 
for school wear. They won't all have to be exactly 
alike. There is plenty of room for individuality. 

MPS. B. — You know some schools have already 
adopted the plan. Some of them I have visited, 
so I know how it works. I have visited high schools 
where there was not a silk stocking nor a high heeled 
slipper, nor a silk petticoat to be seen. And yet it 
was marvelous what a variety there was in the 



26 A Woman's 'Privilege. 

girls' dress. Linen and serge of nearly every color 
and ties of every shade, and with it all the free 
gait and lack of self-consciousness that belong to 
simple clothing. 

Mrs. R- — Out of school, all the silks and fluffles 
that fond fathers and mothers can provide, but in 
school a real democracy. 

Ralph. — I say if that's what you're after, some- 
thing that will make the spirit of the school more 
democratic, and the girls won't look too awful bad, 
I think it's just what we want. . What's your ob- 
jection, Gladys? 

Mrs. B. — Yes, tell us your real objections, Miss 
Miller. 

Gladys. — Why — why — Just because — Why — we 
always have worn the other dresses, and I never 
could see but what they were all right. Why — I 
think they're pretty. And I know I'll look like a 
fright in a uniform and (Bell rings.) 

Mrs. R. — The models have come, I'll bring them 
right in. (Rises.) 

Mrs. B.— (To Gladys) What if you should like 
them after all? (Enter three models, one in a Peter 
Tompson, one in a one-piece linen or other light ma- 
terial, one in a simple cotton afternoon frock. Ihey 
move about ivhere they can be easily seen while the oth- 
ers look and admire.) 



A Woman's Pri-vilege. 27 



Elleil.— (Joyously.) Oh! they are just beautiful. 
I just love them all. 

(Mrs. Brown takes Ellen to one side and they talk 
in low tones; while the others continue to admire 
the costumes.) 

Ralph. — Glad., you'd look like a peach in that 
blue oue. My sister's got to have a summer dress 
just like that other one. (Pointing.) 

(Enter Mr. Jennings.) 

Mrs. R. — Oh, you're just in time, Mr. Jennings. 
We are just looking at the models. What do you 
think of them? 

Mr. J. — They are .prettier than I had imagined. 
I don't see a single objection. Some such standard 
styles would improve the looks of our school a 
hundred percent. 

Gladys.— (Brightening.) Do you think so, Mr. 
Jennings? 

Mr. J. — I know it. Besides, it would save no 
end of time and worry for the parents and would 
do more than anything else to make our school 
democratic, and we need the right spirit just now 
more than ever before. 

Ralph. — Is it so that Ellen Gray is going to 
drop school on account of clothes, Mr. Jennings? 

Mr. J. — Yes, that's what she says, and I don't 
know how many others feel the same way. 



28 A Woman's Privilege. 

{Mrs. Brown and Ellen step forward arm in arm. 
Ellen has slipped on a Peter Tompson.) 

Mrs. B. — She has changed her mind, Mr. Jen- 
ings. You know that is a woman's privilege. She 
is to be my very own daughter for the rest of the 
year. (Clap hands and shout) 

All.— Good ! Good ! 

Ralph. — Bully for you, Ellen. 

Gladys. — (Stepping forward.) Did you say it is a 
woman's privilege to change her mind? 

All. — (Shouting.) Yes, Yes. 

Gladys. — I move that the chairman of this com- 
mittee carry back a unanimous report in favor of 
democracy in dress. 

(Curtain.) 



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